S2E85 | Why Dororo's Dark Journey Reveals Hidden Truths About Human Nature and Redemption

There is something deeply unsettling about a father who trades his unborn child's body parts to demons for worldly power, yet this grotesque premise of Dororo becomes, paradoxically, one of the most profound meditations on what it means to be human that I have encountered in recent years. When we first meet Hyakkimaru, he is less than human in the most literal sense—missing eyes, ears, limbs, even his voice—yet through this extreme deprivation, Osamu Tezuka forces us to confront what we so casually assume about humanity itself.